Opposition parties vow to ‘clean the Clean Air Act’.

The three opposition parties are vowing to turn the Canadian government’s Clean Air Act into a vehicle for complying with the Kyoto Protocol.

Turkey can’t be signatory to Kyoto Protocol before EU membership, says Pepe. Environment and Forestry Minister Osman Pepe said on Wednesday that Turkey's First Climate Change National Report aimed to plan the route to meet the Kytot Protocol's requirements. [News Source]

Creeping greenhouse gases alarm UN experts. Alarmed by the results of a new study, United Nations experts on climate change are urging the world's industrialised nations to introduce further cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions. [News Source]

EERC gets carbon contract. The University of North Dakota's Energy and Environmental Research Center has been awarded a $67 million federal contract to work on storing carbon dioxide emissions underground. [News Source]

Business leaders push new regional initiative. Ten of San Diego County's leading companies, three universities and Navy Region Southwest are among the big players that will unveil an alliance today aimed at tackling regional environmental problems, including the gases linked to climate change. [News Source]

Australia to push for “New Kyoto” in Asia. After repeatedly blocking domestic carbon trading, Australia said on Thursday it would now push for Asia-wide emissions trading to combat global warming as part of a planned "new-Kyoto" pact. [News Source]

Resorts go green. Not only are ski resorts pushing legislation in Washington to combat global warming, at least 45 resorts in 14 states from coast-to-coast are using clean energy for some of their operations. [News Source]

Probe into Bush govt climate-change ‘gag’. Two US government agencies are investigating whether the Bush administration tried to block government scientists from speaking freely about global warming and censor their research, a senator says. [News Source]

U.S. agencies study claims of scientific censorship. Federal auditors are investigating allegations that the two main agencies on space and ocean science censored government scientists who held views on global warming that clashed with those of the Bush administration. [News Source]

Australia in push for ‘New Kyoto’. After repeatedly blocking domestic carbon trading, Australia said on Thursday it would now push for Asia-wide emissions trading to combat global warming as part of a planned "new-Kyoto" pact. [News Source]

UK report on global warming alerts Chile, Latin America. A 700-page report on global warming released Monday by the British government warns that the failure to curb carbon emissions will have disastrous consequences on the planet, especially in Latin America. [News Source]